This man is a hero you’ve never heard of. Very interesting story. The Soviet Union’s approved theories on genetics were a travesty. Even late into the Cold War (post destalinization), Ken Alibek, the former Soviet bioweaponeer remarked on how idiotic it was that Mendelian genetics was still taught as a “capitalist science.”

I think about this every time that some right winger goes off on “the liberal theory of climate change.” Historically expecting science to accord with your political philosophy tends to end badly for everyone.